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NoTouch Ramp Load technology-The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

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WarrantyBeyond any applicable Newegg return policy, this item is warranted independently by the product's Manufacturer or a Third party. Below is a summary provided for convenience only and may not be accurate or current.
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Rating: 4/52 out of 3 ain't bad.

Pros: They're 4TB of HD space at a fairly reasonable price. I got 2 of them on sale and then decided to get a 3rd to build a RAID 5 instead of a RAID 1 that I originally planned for. for the most part I'm happy with the purchase.

Cons: 1 of the 3 was DOA, but the worst part is Newegg charing me almost $13.00 for a replacement, which I determined I'd need the day I opened it. Why is it my responsibility to pay for the manufacturer's or Newegg's garbage? I've been a customer with Newegg for years and very loyal, but this is bullcrap. I'm highly considering doing a lot less shopping here if everytime I get faulty hardware I have to pay for it, and if the replacement is bad, I'll have to pay for that too. That's unacceptable. If it's not the customer's fault and it's well within the return period, then these charges shouldn't be on the customer.

Rating: 4/5Good Drive once replaced

Other Thoughts: The first unit received arrived within 2 days of purchase and was DOA (horrible clicking noise on boot up). RMA process requires you pay for shipment and they e-mail you a link to UPS label about 15 minutes after you pay for it. They got the unit back about 4 days later and processed both the credit (shipping + previous purchase) and placed the order for the replacement the same day. I got the replacement within 2 days and worked great. Whisper quiet and quick enough for a large storage device.

Rating: 5/5Design to fail but you can fix that

Pros: Quiet, affordable, can be reliable if you disable the self destruct feature, essentially the same drive as the red except missing one not so important feature

Cons: this drive will eat itself alive in certain situations if you do not run a program that changes how often it parks it's heads.

Other Thoughts: this drive has a feature that parks the heads after 7-8 seconds of inactivity. It can only handle 200k-600k parks and is rated at 300k. You can easily rack up thousands of parks a day. There are people who hit 600k in a few months. There are people who rack up 10k in 3 years. Depends on how it's used.

Parking the heads saves .7w so if you have 10 drives that's like a 70w bulb.

The Reds parks there heads as well... After several minutes. Saving the .7w when not in use.

Lastly if using these in a server make sure it's a software raid server like freeNas w/ zfs. If you use any expensive raid controllers flash them to be in IT pass-through mode. Reason is some of those controllers will drop the drive if the drive finds a bad sector and try's to repair itself.

Most people they don't know if they are using hardware or software raid are using software.

WDIDLE3.exe is the program you get from WD to change when the drive parks it's heads. Just set it to never or 5 minutes or so.

Rating: 5/5Great parity drive in UnRAID

Pros: Replaced a 500GB drive and moved a 3TB parity drive into the 500gb drive slot and put this 4TB drive in the parity slot. Array rebuild was relatively quick and this drive performs like a dream. Just waiting for another sale so I can replace all my 1-2TB drives with these.

Rating: 1/5Second Drive Failure

Other Thoughts: I first bought this drive last fall, and made the mistake of not performing a burn in test. After moving 2 TB of my data over to it, it crashed. Newegg replaced the hard drive with the same model. After only running for 54 hours via S.M.A.R.T info it already had meat the threshold for bad/reallocated sectors that now I am getting disk failure messages constantly. It should be noted that this drive is in an well ventilated case with 7 other disk of varying age. I have purchased and swapped hard drives many times over the years and this is my first real consistent case of repeat failure. I will be contacting WD Support for replacement as it is past the 30 day window. However if purchasing be sure to validate the drive upon arrival.

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